How can we know what to believe?

I have been thinking about what I believe lately.

Hmm… sounds like you’re getting religious.

I’m actually thinking more broadly than that… beliefs about everything from science to the supernatural, relationships, investing, etc.

Wow, sounds like you want to be a philosopher.

Funny you should use that word… I don’t know that I want to be a philosopher like most people think of. But it seems to me that we’re all philosophers whether we realize it or not.

So then the question is now whether we think or have philosophies or beliefs, but how careful we are about why we believe them.